Aliona Vadimovna Bolsova Zadoinova (; ; born 6 November 1997) is a Spanish-Moldovan tennis player.

On the ITF Junior Circuit, Bolsova had a combined career-high ranking of No. 4, and reached the quarterfinals of the 2015 Australian Open.

Aliona Bolsova

Bolsova has career-high WTA rankings of 88 in singles and 54 in doubles. She has won five doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour along with eight singles and 13 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Aliona Bolsova

Playing for Spain, Bolsova has a win–loss record of 4–3 in Billie Jean King Cup competition.

Aliona Bolsova

Personal life

Bolsova moved from Moldova to Spain at a young age. Her father, Vadim Zadoinov, and her mother, Olga Bolșova, were both Olympic athletes, and so were her maternal grandparents, athletes Viktor Bolshov and Valentyna Maslovska.

She represented Moldova from 2012 to 2013, until she gained Spanish citizenship in 2013.

College career

Bolsova played for Oklahoma State University's tennis team as a freshman in the 2016–17 season in NCAA play. There, her record was 31–7 in singles and 25–7 in doubles. Her tenure included helping OSU's team reach the final of the 2017 Big 12 Conference championship and the quarterfinals of the 2017 NCAA tournament.

In 2018, Bolsova played for Florida Atlantic University, going undefeated in singles with a record of 19–0. In doubles, she went 15–3. Bolsova turned professional following the Conference USA championship of 2018.

Professional career

At the 2019 French Open, she qualified for the main draw and reached the fourth round on her Grand Slam debut in which she lost to Amanda Anisimova.

She entered the 2023 French Open as a lucky loser, after an absence in the main draw at this major since 2020, and won her first-round match against Kristína Kučová.

Performance timelines

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles

Current through the 2023 French Open.

Doubles

Current through the 2023 Australian Open.

WTA career finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

WTA 125 finals

Doubles: 6 (5 titles, 1 runner-up)

ITF Circuit finals

Bolsova debuted at the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour in 2012 at the $10k event in Coimbra, Portugal. In singles, she has been in 17 finals and has won eight of them, while in doubles, she reached 18 finals and has won 13. In December 2020, she finished runner-up at the $100k Dubai Tennis Challenge in the doubles draw.

Singles: 18 (9 titles, 9 runner–ups)

Doubles: 18 (13 titles, 5 runner–ups)

References

External links

Official website

1997 births

Living people

Spanish female tennis players

Moldovan female tennis players

Spanish people of Moldovan descent

Spanish people of Russian descent

Moldovan expatriates in Spain

Moldovan emigrants to Spain

Sportspeople from Chișinău

People from Baix Empordà

Sportspeople from the Province of Girona

Naturalised citizens of Spain

Oklahoma State Cowgirls tennis players

Naturalised sports competitors

Sportswomen from Catalonia

Spanish expatriate sportspeople in the United States